MLL 601 - Intercultural Pragmatics

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In this course students examine the pragmatic components of human interaction within an intercultural context. The course is concerned with the crucial role context and pragmatic principles play in understanding the invisible meanings of utterances in everyday conversations and other forms of human communication. Topics of investigation will include: the role of culture and the cultural unconscious in meaning making; content and co-text; situation, frames and scripts in defining context and meaning; implicature; cooperative principle; relevance theory; politeness theory; speech act theory and performativity; and the relationship between language and power.